KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has named Ali Khurshidi as its candidate for Sindh chief minister, the party’s spokesperson stated on Sunday.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has named Ali Khurshidi as its candidate for Sindh chief minister, according to the party’s spokesperson on Sunday.
Khurshidi, who won from Karachi’s PS-119 constituency with 22,424 votes, previously served as a member of the provincial legislature from 2018 to 2023. She will face Murad Ali Shah, the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) chief ministerial candidate who is in the running to be the province’s chief executive for the third time.
The development occurred when the Sindh Assembly was counting votes for the positions of speaker and deputy speaker.
Awais Qadir Shah of the PPP defeated Sofia Saeed Shah of the MQM-P by 111 votes.
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has named Ali Khurshidi as its candidate for Sindh chief minister, the party’s spokesperson stated on Sunday.
Following the election, polling for the deputy speaker’s position will begin immediately after the new speaker takes oath.
Rashid Khan, of the MQM-P, is running for deputy speaker against Anthony Naveed of the PPP.
At the start of today’s assembly session, about nine members of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and Jamat-e-Islami’s (JI) Muhammad Farooq took oath as MPAs.
A day earlier, at least 148 newly elected Sindh Assembly members took their oaths in the 168-member parliament.
Opposition groups protested outside the parliament during the oath-taking, alleging corruption and manipulation of the results on February 8.
